Snow in Las Vegas

Once every few years it snows in Las Vegas enough to accumulate. In early 2004, my husband woke me around 7:30 in the morning to alert me to this rare phenomenon. I took pictures quickly, because the snow was gone within a couple of hours.

It's much more usual to experience severe heat in Las Vegas, which causes things to melt.

This is a lamp in our side yard. We keep it lit with low-energy fluoro bulbs every night to make the poorly-lit street outside safer for pedestrians. It would have still been lit as the snow fell, so you can see how cool the low-energy bulbs are; if they'd been incandescents, the snow would not have accumlated on the globes.

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